Collaborate Disseminate
If you’ve made a robot or played around with electronics before, you might have used a time-of-flight laser distance sensor before. More modern ones detect not just the first reflection, …read more Continue reading Turbocharge Your Transient Sensors With Math
USB-C Power Delivery has definitely made the big mess of wires a bit smaller but not all cables are created equal — some of them can handle upwards of 100 …read more Continue reading Freshening Up Google’s USB-C PD Sniffer
Sound cards used to be a big part of gaming machines in the 90s and 2000s but have largely gone extinct in the wake of powerful CPUs doing the sound …read more Continue reading PicoGUS: For All Your ISA Sound Card Needs
Some of our readers may know about Zork (and 1, 2, 3), the 1977 text adventure originally written for the PDP-10. The game has been public domain for a while …read more Continue reading Zork Zcode Interpreters Appear Out Of Nowhere
Most hydraulic jacks are big tools that can lift upwards of 1000 kg but [Maker B]’s is quite a bit smaller than average. The world’s smallest hydraulic jack is a …read more Continue reading Miniature Hydraulic Jack is a Scale Marvel
The Intel 4004 was among the first microprocessors and one of the first to use the MOS silicon-gate technology. In the decades long race to build bigger CPUs, it’s been …read more Continue reading Supersize Your Intel 4004 By Over 10 Times
Necklaces aren’t often very high-tech, mostly because of the abuse they have to go through being worn. This was obviously a problem that needed solving, so [Matt Venn] decided to …read more Continue reading Increase Your Blinkenlights With This Silicon Wafer Necklace
Nice, visual simulators of CPUs such as the 6502 are usually made much later and with more modern tooling than what they simulate. But what if that wasn’t the case? …read more Continue reading A Mysterious 6502 Apple 2 simulator
The last time we covered [Dr. Scott M. Baker], he made his Heathkit H8 run on a considerably older processor than it was made for. This time, apparently still not …read more Continue reading An Intel 8008 On A Single-Board Computer
Have you ever wanted to be the best Super Mario Brothers speedrunner, but you just couldn’t do the frame-perfect inputs? Fear not, because [Gregory Strike] is here to save the …read more Continue reading Real NES Plays Frame-Perfect For You On Twitch